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NEW DELHI: Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) today reported 30 per cent increase in global sales for April at 37,171 units. The company's sales were up 72 per cent in the China region, 19 per cent in North America, 25 per cent in Asia Pacific and 27 per cent in Europe, JLR said in a statement. "April sales continue the positive momentum we saw in the first quarter of 2014. Alongside the F-Type, all three Range Rover models delivered record April sales performances reflecting the global appeal of our strongest ever vehicle line up," JLR Group Sales Operations Director Andy Goss said.

By Mark McSherry Don't mention the names Ferguson or Moyes to Mark Fields, the chosen one who is set to succeed Ford Motor Company's chief executive, Alan Mulally. How do you follow one of the biggest turnaround acts in American corporate history? Mulally was named recently by Fortune magazine as the world's third greatest leader, behind Pope Francis and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. To be fair, Fields has a better chance at Ford than David Moyes ever did at Old Trafford succeeding Sir Alex Ferguson as manager of Manchester United football club.

NEW DELHI: Tata Motors, the country's largest automobile company by revenue, has begun top-level management changes at its commercial vehicles units amid falling local sales. Alok Singh, who was with Tata Group company Jaguar and Land Rover , has been made the new plant head at the company's Pantnagar unit in Uttrakhand while Lucknow plant head Alok Saxena has been moved to Pune as vice-president, purchasing, under BB Parik, according to company executives. Production at Tata's Lucknow plant has been scaled back due to slump in domestic demand.

BEIJING: Tata-owned British luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover will recall 1,923 vehicles in China mainly due to problems with their warning lights, a quality watchdog today said. The recall by Jaguar Land Rover Automotive Trading (Shanghai) from April 17 covers 1,909 imported 2014-edition Range Rover vehicles in the Chinese mainland, which were produced from May 7 to October 10, 2013, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

MUMBAI: Tata Motors is close to finalising a joint project with its British subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover to develop a premium sports utility vehicle that could be priced at Rs 20-25 lakh and pitted against the likes of Toyota Fortuner, Ford Endeavour and Hyundai Santa Fe. A team of 45 engineers headed by Karl Heinz Servos is working on the project, codenamed Q5, which could lead to rolling out of a five-seven seater SUV in 2016-17...

NEW DELHI: Tata Motors, Sesa Sterlite, HCL Technologies and Tech Mahindra are among the companies in the BSE 200 index whose net profits during the first nine months of FY14 have exceeded their FY13 full year profits. An ETIG analysis shows two out of every nine companies that reported net profit during the first nine months of FY14 in the BSE200 index have exceeded their FY13 full year profits. These companies have been able to surpass their previous year's profits in less than a year on account of either sustained sales growth or better operating and non-operating cost management or both.

NEW DELHI: Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) today reported a 14 per cent increase in global sales in February at 30,487 units. The company's sales were up 44 per cent in the China region, 12 per cent in North America, 16 per cent in Asia Pacific and 1 per cent in Europe, JLR said in a statement. "This has been another solid month for Jaguar Land Rover with continued strong demand for models across the range in our international markets," JLR Group Sales Operations Director Andy Goss said.

NEW DELHI: Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover plans to launch a new mid-sized sports sedan , Jaguar XE, next year across global markets . The sedan, whose global roll out will begin in 2015, will be the first user of the 'Ingenium' engines in four-cylinder two-litre petrol and diesel variants. "The first of our Ingenium engine range will be used in our all-new mid-sized Jaguar sports sedan. That car will be called the Jaguar XE, and it will be unveiled in production form later this year," Jaguar Land Rover ( JLR )

LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron has hailed Tata Motors-owned luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover as a "great story", saying it epitomises the resilience of Britain's economy and its technological advancements. He also praised the 500-million-pound investment by Tata Motors in a new Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) plant in the West Midlands region. "This is a great story of the future of Britain. We congratulate Jaguar Land Rover for the investment they are making, which epitomises what we need to happen to the British economy," Cameron said during a visit to the i54 business park on the Staffordshire-Wolverhampton boundary yesterday.

By Ashutosh Shyam Jaguar Land Rover , the UK-based luxury-vehicle maker that helped drive a forecast-busting 3-fold jump in parent Tata Motors' third-quarter net profit, is likely to remain the Indian company's money spinner for several more years. Strong demand for its newly launched premium vehicles and cost controls helped JLR record a 17.9% operating margin in the past quarter, helping Tata Motors offset pressure at its home market and the impact of adverse foreign-exchange movement (dollar vs British pound)